J. Murray Hoag

John Murray Hoag (May 5, 1843 – December 12, 1917) was a Union Army officer and Freedmen's Bureau official in Georgia during the Reconstruction Era.

[6] He was cited for gallant action, "While suffering from fever and on the sick list, he insisted on leading his company, was wounded in two places, and fell 'at the enemy's inner line of abatis'".

[7][2] He was promoted to Brevet Lieutenant Colonel, and mustered out of service as Captain of the Fourth Colored Troops, as reported in the Army and Navy Journal on February 2, 1867.

His work entailed hiring construction workers and teachers, establishing tuition, opening and closing schools,[2] and supplying rations to African American settlements along coast of Georgia.

Hoag testified in contradiction to rumors that the majority of African Americans were armed, placing the blame instead on white Democrats involved.

[17] Around that time, he moved to Maquoketa, Iowa, where he lived for 40 years and conducted one of the largest shetland pony farms in the country.

[21] In about 1907 he moved to Washington, D.C.,[16] and in 1909 he was returned to active duty and transferred to Buffalo, New York,[22] where he took charge of the Army's recruiting station in that city.